• Shadowedcross@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    One of my favourite games to have kernel level anticheat is Helldivers 2, and I think it’s definitely caused a few issues for me.

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      6 months ago

      Helldivers 2 works on Linux even with the anti cheat unlike Valorant so there must be some differences there.

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        6 months ago

        Riot’s Vanguard is the only one that needs to start with boot, and always run in the background. Others can initialize and close when the game is done, IIRC. Which is why they can work with proton/wine.

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        6 months ago

        Supposedly it falls back to usermode anticheat on linux. That’s what I heard but there wasn’t a source, so could be BS.

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      6 months ago

      It’s really sad that they chose to implement it. I would’ve loved to play Helldivers 2 but I just refuse to allow them that level of access to my device, especially for a game that isn’t even competitive.

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        6 months ago

        That’s where I’m at with the game.

        Like yeah it looks fun, I’m not willingly installing malware. Especially after the apex legends debacle.

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        6 months ago

        Thankfully on linux we have tools to heavily limit it’s access such as firejail. It doesn’t just get unrestricted root access

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        6 months ago

        Their explanation for it makes sense though. They were running into the problem that a player could cheat and progress their games faster, etc. Since HD2 is essentially a MASSIVE, single DnD campaign that every player is a part of, those cheaters would break the campaign progress and ruin it for every single other player.

        They also include shortcuts to install and uninstall only the anticheat. So you can remove it immediately once you finish playing.